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Inventors and makers
- Adams, George junior
- Adams, George senior
- Adolf & Georg Repsold Firm
- Albert d'Ailly, Michel Ferdinand d', Duc de Chaulnes
- Albrecht, Andreas
- Amici, Giovanni Battista
- Amontons, Guillaume
- Antonelli, Giovanni
- Apianus, Petrus
- Archimedes
- Arsenius, Gualterus
- Ayscough, James
- Baillou, François de
- Banks, Robert
- Barlow, Peter
- Barrois, François
- Barthélemy
- Batecin, Lorenzo
- Belletti, Paolo
- Bennet, Abraham
- Benson, James William
- Beringer, David
- Bettally, Christophe
- Bianchini, Antonio
- Bion, Nicolas
- Blaeu, Willem Jansz
- Blunt, Thomas
- Bohnenberger, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von
- Botti, Matteo
- Botto, Giuseppe Domenico
- Boyling, Christian
- Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro
- Brander, Georg Friedrich
- Breguet, Abraham-Louis
- Bumel, Michael
- Buonsignori, Stefano
- Bürgi, Joost
- Cabrier II, Charles
- Campani, Giuseppe
- Canivet, Jacques
- Cantoni, Giovanni
- Cari, Gaetano
- Carré, Ferdinand-Philippe
- Cartaro, Mario
- Cary, William
- Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
- Cecchi, Filippo
- Chapotot, Louis
- Chérubin d'Orléans
- Clarke, Edward Marmaduke
- Coignet, Michel
- Cole, Humphrey
- Comelli, Francesco
- Contarini, Paolo
- Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria
- Coventry, John
- Crosten, Vittorio
- Cuff, John
- Culpeper, Edmund
- Danfrie, Philippe
- Danti, Egnazio
- De Luc, Jean-André
- De Palma, Filippo
- Delamarche, Charles-François
- Delamarche, Félix
- Delander, Daniel
- Deleuil firm
- Delisle, Guillaume
- Della Volpaia, Benvenuto
- Della Volpaia, Camillo
- Della Volpaia, Eufrosino
- Della Volpaia, Girolamo
- Della Volpaia, Lorenzo
- Dell'Acqua, Carlo
- Desaguliers, John Theophilus
- Descroizilles, François-Antoine-Henri
- Deuvez, Arnold
- Dien, Charles
- Divini, Eustachio
- Dollond firm
- Dollond, John
- Dollond, Peter
- Donati, Giovanni Battista
- Dorn, Hans
- Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin de Boulogne
- Dudley, Robert, Duke of Northumberland
- Dutton, William
- Facini, Bernardo
- Faraday, Michael
- Ferguson, James
- Ferrini, Giuseppe
- Folli, Francesco
- Fontana, Felice
- Fontenay, Jean-Baptiste Baillon de
- Forfaict, Augustin
- Fortin, Nicolas
- Fortini, Giovanni
- Francini, Ippolito
- Fraunhofer, Joseph von
- Frodsham, Charles
- G. & S. Merz firm
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gallonde, M.
- Gatti, Annibale
- Gaulard, Lucien
- Gay-Lussac, Louis-Joseph
- Geoffroy, Étienne-François
- Giamin, Jean
- Gibertoni, Carlo
- Giusti, Giovanni Battista
- Goes, Francisco de
- Gonnella, Tito
- Gori, Felice
- Gori, Galgano
-
Gravesande
(‘s), Willem Jacob
- Greuter, Matthäus
- Gribelin, Nicolas
- Guidi, Leto
- Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard
- Habermel, Erasmus
- Habermel, Josua
- Hadley, John
- Harper, Henry
- Hartmann, Georg
- Hartnack & Prazmowski firm
- Hartnack, Edmund
- Henley, William
- Hero of Alexandria
- Homem, Lopo
- Hondius, Jodocus
- Huygens, Christiaan
-
Lambrit, Thomas
(known as Gemini)
- Lanci, Baldassarre
- Landriani, Marsilio
- Lane, Timothy
- Le Maire, Pierre
- Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste
- Lerebours, Jean-Noël
- Lessi, Tito
- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
- Louis-Félix Védy firm
- Lusverg, Domenico
- Lusverg, Giacomo
- Maccari, Giovanni
- Magrini, Luigi
- Maiocchi, Giovanni Alessandro
- Maison Delamarche
- Malliard, Joseph
- Mariani, Jacopo
- Marke, John
- Markwick, James
- Marshall, John
- Massucci, Paolo
- Mazzeranghi, Gaspero
- Medici, Ferdinand II de', Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Melloni, Macedonio
- Mercator, Gerard
- Miller, Christoph
- Morland, Samuel
- Moser, Georg-Michael
- Motter, Johannes
- Mudge, Thomas
- Musschenbroek, Petrus van
- Pacini, Filippo
- Pacinotti, Antonio
- Paggi, Giustino
- Palmieri, Luigi
- Pascal, Blaise
- Patroni, Pietro
- Paul, Jaques
- Pigeon, Jean
- Pinam, Joseph
- Pixii, Hippolyte
- Plato, Carlo
- Poggiali, Angiolo
- Porcellotti, Eustachio
- Pritchard, Andrew
- Ramsden, Jesse
- Rauber, Caspar
- Reichenbach, George Friedrich von
- Reichert, Carl
- Reis, Johann Phillipp
- Renaldini, Carlo
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Richter, Johann
(Praetorius)
- Robin, Charles-Philippe
- Rousseau
- Roverelli, Luigi
- Ryther, Augustine
- Saluzzo, Giuseppe Angelo, Count of Monesiglio
- Santucci, Antonio
- Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de
- Savoi, Giovanni
- Schissler, Christoph
- Schissler, Hans Christoph
- Schweigger, Johann Salomon Christian
- Selva, Domenico
- Selva, Lorenzo
- Semitecolo, Leonardo
- Sergel, Johann Tobias
- Seyfried, G.P.
- Six, James
- Smith / Beck & Beck firm
- Spighi, Francesco
- Stevin, Simon
- Suardi, Giovanni Battista
- Susini, Clemente
- Sustermans, Justus
- Sutton, Henri
- Tecnomasio Italiano
- Thompson, Benjamin, Count Rumford
- Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir Ibn
- Tofani, Anton Francesco
- Torricelli, Evangelista
- Trechsler, Christoph
- Treffler, Johann Philipp
- Troschel, Hans
- Troughton, John
- Truchet, Jean
- Tucher, Hans
- Wedgwood, Josiah
- Wheatstone, Charles
- Whitwell, Charles
- Wiesel, Johann
- Williamson, Christopher
- Wilson, Benjamin
- Wimshurst, James
- Winter, Carl
- Wolf, Corrado
- Wollaston, William Hyde
- Wright, George